MS Mo 373 Charles Grant - One Room School House

Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 7:27 p.m.

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Charles Grant began his career teaching in a one room school house in Basin, Mississippi during the Great Depression.\\xa0\\xa0He recalls what it was like to be a \\u201cfaculty-of-one\\u201d at White\\u2019s Creek African-American school.

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Grant remembers the effort that went into improving and expanding the tiny school. The school\\u2019s success was not without growing pains.\\xa0 Grant details the reluctance of some school supervisors to provide supplies and transportation for black students.

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